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Re: No O Reilly Mathematica Cookbook

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg74565] Re: No O Reilly Mathematica Cookbook
• From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
• Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:09:07 -0500 (EST)
• References: <eu54oq$l0v$1@smc.vnet.net>

siewsk at bp.com wrote:
> Everyone,
> 
>   I feel stupid posting what is basically newbie questions on
> comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica.
> 
>   So I decided to purchase a O'Reilly    Mathematica Cookbook.
> 
>   To my big surprise, there is none.
> 
> 
> 
>   http://www.oreilly.com/store/series/cookbooks.csp
> 
> 
>   Shouldn't there is a Cookbook for Mathematica to stop people from
> asking the same questions over and over again?
> 
> 
I think the 'problem' is that Mathematica is so powerful that everyone 
has a different newbie question! Also, a lot of newbie questions boil 
down to omitting a comma, using the wrong kind of brackets, using an 
underscore in a variable name - things that would be very hard to index 
in a book because by definition, the user does not know that is what his 
problem is!

Experimenting with some of the examples from the Mathematica book is the 
best way to learn.

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk